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Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It provides customer and partner feedback driven fixes into a single service pack, minimizing deployment and testing complexity. In addition to all previously released updates, SP2 will contain changes focused on addressing reliability and performance issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.

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i ve got this update for my laptop yesterday..... i was experincing many problems as slow wifi internet transfere by the way many people ve got this problem and they try to do more things to fix but thhey always fail but after installing the update the problem doesnt exist anymore also the total system performance is great till now ...... thank for the update developing team

After installing sp2 I've had problems with IE freezing up. Also my WiFi card crashes a lot it pops up with an error like a program plus sometimes my computer really lags bad videos will play all choppy and the hard drive spins a lot like its loading something but its not I wonder whats doing that the only way I can get it right is to shut down unplug my laptop and then start it back up its not an issue that happens after a long time of use just really random.

Since installing Vista SP2 CPP my 3Dconnexion Space Mouse with drivers version 6.6.4 is regularly reported as an unknown USB device upon wake from sleep.

This did not occur under SP1.

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for trying SP2. In order to diagnose your problem further, we would need some information from your machine.

Can you please gather the following and send them to us?1. setupapi*.log from %windir%\inf2. cbs*.log from %windir%\logs\cbs3. setup*.log from %windir%\Panther4. System Information (execute msinfo32.exe and use File--> Save)5. Event viewer Logs (execute eventvwr.exe, open "windows logs", and save Application, Security and System Events)

Please compress the logs together and send them to shashank<dot>bansal<at>microsoft<dot>com

Two, I went to Technet downloads at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx to download training. I received a "VBScript: Microsoft File Transfer Manager" Window that announced "There was a error launching File Transfer Manager. If you are running . . . " yada, yada . . . If the Gold IE Information Bar is present, please click the bar and select the option to "Install ActiveX".

No Gold Bar, no option to install, and the ActiveX control isn't installed.

After SP2 installation your desktop may display the text "Evaluation Copy". This does not mean that your system is no longer "Genuine", only that you have installed a test version of software which is time-limited

After installing the service pack, the "Evaluation Copy" text may show up on the 2nd boot

After un-installing the services pack, the "Evaluation Copy" text may remain during the first boot, but will disappear after the next reboot

Starting any Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Vista SP2 installations will result in Microsoft collecting information about the installation process"

Microsoft, that sucks! If you are going to do that (turn licensed copies into eval copies) on SPs you invite people to test, and with your record of "uninstalls", you are going to have less "real" users.

Also, the "eval" doesn't happen on either laptop or workstation 64-bit machines.

In the meantime -- anyone have any ideas about downloading the training?

I have three show systems running vista 64 and 2 running the 32 bit version. Installed sp 2 on all 5.

Increased speed and performance overall notable on every one.

The only problem iVe noticed is a few sluggish issues with IE 7 but that could of just been the net at that time of day.

Those of you who dont understand the reason for the "Evaluation copy" should doublecheck the word BETA in your dictionary and read the release notes before the install.

Also- a friend of mine had issues, but he had never done any driver updates and it turned out to be a driver fault, not an issue related to sp2.

My only beef at this point is that in older apps that are no longer maintained that we have to use in our buisiness, we still are struggling with the read only file issue. Even after taking full ownership of everything we could and changing allowances for every concieveable user, we are at about 98% functionality on external drives.

The problem is, even though the software can now read and write to the drives properly,which we have proven time and time again it still "Sees" the read-only files and tells itself that it cannot function properly this way, therefore it cannot "Save" any file changes.

It would make our lives and several thousand others sooooo much easier if we could just lock the "read only" status out of all non OS drives. We currently are running 3tb of file storage in each computer and as long as it is a Vista or ms program there is no problem.

When we use the software that runs our machinery and lighting and sound systems is when we have problems. The biggest factor is that in order to change our software, we would have to make several thousands of dollars worth of modifications to our equipment, as the company that built our systems, is no longer writing software for it and is now out of business. It was written and designed around XP servicepack 2.

Just let me permanently disable read only on all files except program and operating system and vista will be perfect in my book.

Great install of Sp 2 on my premium 64-bit. Now if all of these 'techies' would understand the concept of Beta downloads and know that they are time limited (read the EULA) and theat as Bertas they will be buggy to the point of crud installs (if at all) (read the EULA) And quit the whinning!!!!!!. Or.... don't download/install Betas

Installed Sp2 on (2) machines in a Domain. Had no problems with the installation; however both machines have been unstable since the installation and required frequent reboots. have experienced the following problems.

1. Windows explorer hangs from several seconds to several minutes while accessing both local and network shares.

Ms Tregre:What is your problem? Do you truly not understand Beta? Nor Evaluation? There is no cause to get so nasty and testy because YOU chose to install something and then did not like it. Grow up! (I doubt that you will see this post).Dave Crowder

I have tried installing Vista SP2 several times now. Install is to completion. After pc reboots as soon as windows comes up it just reboots it self. I can get into windows using safemode and access the logs. Main thing I can see are references to DCOM erros and WMI errors. One of which is error 0x80041003. Ltos of references in the internet but nothing that solves my issue. I have an AMD 6000 cpu with 4 Gig of memory. Windows Ultimate 32 bit and an Invidia 8800 GP. I suspect a driver or hardware issue with the SP2 beta but dont see anything obvious. I also have all logs ready to upload if anyone wants them.At the moment Windows 7 is extremely more stable then the Vista SP2 beta.

Major improvement (at least to me) on my Vista Prem. The only thing is I seem to be experiencing alot of the the same software app issues that I do with Win 7- stuff says wrong version or unsupported version of window. This is especially true with most AV programs.Obviously, software vendors will need to rewrite for Sp2 and Win 7 both. Otherwise, great release

I just did a new install of Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta, Standard Edition and get a footnote in the bottom right corner saying "Windows Server (R) 2008 Standard/Evaluation copy. Build 6002".

I understood that the SP2 part was beta and figured I was eventually going to have to uninstall SP2 beta and install the real SP2 but I sure hope I don't need to install the whole 2008 server all over again.

Two questions:

#1. Is this whole server 2008 install actually an evaluation copy? And I'll have to reinstall the whole thing rather than replace just the final bits of SP2? Hopefully the answer is "no" and I will have to just uninstall the SP2 beta part and then install the final SP2.

#2. Is KB948491 the SP2 beta part? Is that what we uninstall when the real SP2 shows up? Do we uninstall KB955430 as well? These are the only two "updates" at all on my brand new 2008 server system!

Your original install is good. Only will need to remove the Beta (Evaluation) by Apr of 2010. or when you go to the actual full relese of Sp2. Otherwise all is well with your O/S (As I have experienced in the past)Dave C

Everytime I upgrade or install a Beta or Evaluation copy of ANY software, I always do a full backup of my machine first, then do the install - you never know what might happen; especially if you are talking about a service pack. In the old days (back in the OS/2 world) this was a necessity because patches were so awful. The same can be said for some Beta installs.

What is the difference (if any) between the SP2 RC1 that was available for download 3-3-09 and the Evaluation Copy that I downloaded a couple of months ago? They both show "Evaluation Copy Build 6002" in the lower right hand corner but the downloads had different numbers.

No problems with the install process, but right off the bat, the Live Messenger won't even start at all, and my Trend Internet Security 16.6 is broken.

The "Trend Micro Unauthorized Change Prevention Service" is unable to start, which prevents the Trend Firewall service from starting. I followed a Trend technot for re-installed the tmcomm.inf file and rebooted with no success.

Dave, thanks a million. This was clear and helpful. Bright, thanks for your comment, too. Sadly, the update did not appear at all. (Why I posted.)

I tend to be rather compulsive about retaining all downloads. My resolution on one test machine demonstrates why this may be a good idea. I reinstalled the (already installed) sp and then did an uninstall. (Of course, I'll be the first to admit that this is also a preturnaturally effective way of corrupting the install database.)

Absent the release of sp2 rtm, I would like to think that all my attention will go to that fine product 2008 R2 and always on 64-bit systems.

I have found how to fix my problems; I installed the Game Spy with again compatibilite mode XP SP2, did reapply the latest patch, in this instance 1.41 of EA Games and games is running smooth online and single mode with the usual ULA warning.

I don't know why people freak out about ULA in VISTA, to be honest I love the system and if the software developer can't adapt to a true secure OS from MS, well there is other in the market what will cut themself in 4 part to sell their solution to ME. i.e. PerfectDisk always supported the new version of MS Windows and even logitech, to be honest the worst in the hardware are MS, well at least in the gaming, but I saw some very expensive hardware i.e. keyboard that do not advertise VISTA support in MS Store.

I will want to say the installation when very smooth for me for the VISTA SP2 RC on my Gateway quad core and no issue, the game is more then expected as it wasn't updated for VISTA and they won't I guess it will never happen. Oh well one day I will make a Dual Boot for VISTA and XP for the PC games and legacy software that I need in the odd time.

Conclusion; so far I am very impress with your "BETA" and glad that you expose to us the normal user so that I could experiment and find right away what will be compatible what will not be and could make my own FAQ and note for future installation that will surely come with some change.

Have a great day.

A happy user, even when the game BF2 wasn't working for the online part precedent post.

I have intalled the VISTA SP2 RC, When I try to play online with BF2 with all the latest patch including punkbuster also, all with compatiblility mode on the file itself prior to installation in the properties, so I have done my homework for that installation as I have done before for VISTA prior to SP1 and SP1 also and now SP2, I my game will play fine in single mode but as soon I am playing with multiplayer online my game will just crash, no blue screen or black screen or anything else it will just close on me after I log on anyserver, I did try to play the game after the installation of SP2 and it will play fine on single mode but if I try to play online it will load the game and connect to the server but after it finish to load the game in online mode the game will just close on me and bring me back to the desktop no error are display to me, it just close on me?

Anyone have experienced this kind of behavior.

PS I get the the usual warning and give the usual authorization to start the game and all fine after no more prompt of slight delay for login, but nothing different then before for the login in my account online with EA games or activison.

I did not install spy arcade only the BF2 and punkbuster with update and patch as I said this is a new behavior under SP2, even with compatibility mode apply from properties.

After SP2 installation your desktop may display the text "Evaluation Copy". This does not mean that your system is no longer "Genuine", only that you have installed a test version of software which is time-limited

After installing the service pack, the "Evaluation Copy" text may show up on the 2nd boot

After un-installing the services pack, the "Evaluation Copy" text may remain during the first boot, but will disappear after the next reboot

Starting any Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Vista SP2 installations will result in Microsoft collecting information about the installation process"

Cheers,

Can I get an official link that has this part of the statement:

"After SP2 installation your desktop may display the text "Evaluation Copy". This does not mean that your system is no longer "Genuine", only that you have installed a test version of software which is time-limited"

I have tried disabling some services and start up programs but still cannot install SP2. After going through a lengthy installation process, reaching 100%, it just hangs there for along period and then a message appears: Service Pack Did Not Install-Reverting changes. (No reason given).After rebooting, a box appears saying that "Installation Was Unsuccessful" On clicking a link below, I got the message:

ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS 0x800700b7.

Why does it have to go through to almost a complete installation before reverting changes, why could not have done this earlier?

Obviously, your 1 goal in life is to cause trouble for people. Do you get thumped by people on the street? Or do you never get out and interact with real people????? IBut in response-I would use the RC for Vista. I seems to run well on 2 of my builds

egads: Don't know. If you realize that I also am running Ubuntu on one of my rigs and SUSE on the other in addition to all of the MSFT stuff, you would realize a thing or 2. However, you obviously have a burr under your saddle about me specifically or positive posts about Vista and Win7. Sorry you have those issues. I know a good shrink in Venezuela named Hugo who you could visit, he is highly recommended for having a high cure rate

I already have a beta of SP2 on my vista, and got the KB960351 with windowsupdate to remove the beta of the SP2 first, but somehow it can't get the SP2 removed. It starts uninstalling, and after a reboot it runs through another 3 fases, and right at the end it says something went wrong and it starts reverting the deinstallation. Any ideas on what is going wrong? Where could i look to find possible problems?

you need to give it a chance.... it will take longer on the first boot after a service pack install for it to initiate all the services for the first time. i installed, rebooted, ran windows for 30mins, rebooted and its fine.

only problem im having is WMP not playing music as it should just gives me a random clicking sound as it goes through each track.

uninstalling tonight due to the fact i listen to music allot and prefer WMP over Winamp and any other Players.